Little Ashes Reviews
Sydney Morning Herald
It feels as though Morrison and Goslett are trying too hard to emulate the work of their subjects.
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| Original Score: 2/5
The Age (Australia)
The drawcard of Robert ''Twilight'' Pattinson as Dali is a mixed blessing for the filmmakers, given how ill-at-ease he is in the role. Javier Beltran, as Garcia Lorca, cast as the heroic centre of the film, cuts a more confident figure.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Urban Cinefile
A snapshot of an insight into the life of Salvador Dali, one of the most complex artists in history and it intensifies rather than satisfies our curiosity about him
Old School Reviews
limps along about as lifelessly as one of Dali's melting clocks
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| Original Score: D+
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Beltran tries to give this flimsy nonsense some weight, but Brits McNulty and Pattinson's attempts at a Spanish accent are woeful.
International Press Academy
It's not even worth it for Robert Pattinson, who is shown in the movie, nearly fully naked, with his privates tucked between his legs, but everything else showing.
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| Original Score: 2/10
Film Snobs
A Pretentious Mess of a Bio-pic In the Worst Sense of the Phrase.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
Baltimore Sun
The movie commits the error of scanting their cultural importance and fixating on Lorca's semi-requited love for Dali.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Austin Chronicle
Sexual repression claims yet one more victim.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
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One Guy's Opinion
A dry, dull retelling of a typical gay coming-of-age tale that's invigorated by neither the period backdrop nor the fact that the characters were real people.
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| Original Score: C-
St. Paul Pioneer Press
The movie, with its badly painted backdrops, its stiff acting and its complete lack of dramatic momentum, is embarrassing to watch.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Beltran, for his part, makes a solidly believable Garcia Lorca. The problem is with the man with whom he's obsessed. In Pattinson's performance, we never see what Garcia Lorca sees in Dali.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Little Ashes is stylish enough to beguile and bold enough to provoke, but it's not bright enough to illuminate.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Even cinematographer Adam Suschitzky's richly textured and resonantly toned cityscapes and rural scenes can't make up for a flawed script and weak performances in what might have been a powerful historical drama.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Oregonian
While it eventually improves, the first quarter-hour of Paul Morrison's drama about the youthful exploits of Spanish artists Salvador Dali, Frederico Garcia Lorca and Luis Bunuel is cringe-worthy.
What's intended to be a daring look at repressed sexuality, three-ways and all, has the dramatic heft of a true-love comic book.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
AskMen.com
An intriguing and muddled relationship between three brilliant artists is downgraded into a tedious and lurid art-world soap opera full of convoluted love triangles.
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| Original Score: 22/100
Windy City Times
A pleasurable, old fashioned gay romance with a good measure of art and politics tossed in between the passion.
Antagony & Ecstasy
Exactly the kind of flavorless bourgeois froth that the men it takes for its subjects would have ridiculed mercilessly.
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| Original Score: 3/10
